From: jdover01@ulkyvx03.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: PHIL: Escape into the artificial world (Was Re: SOC: Social
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1992 00:42:10 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville


In article <1992Mar16.233108.4411@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, jwtlai@jeeves.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai) writes:
> 
> 
> In article <1992Mar16.195943.6349@u.washington.edu> bew@brahms.udel.edu 
> (Ben Williams) writes:
> 
>>Virtual Reality is the latest attempt of Western White man to turn away from
>>the natural world into an artificial one, since he can't hack it with the
>>former.  HE has lost it and he is totally lost...
> 
> One could also argue he has had a problem mastering himself, unlike, say,
> those who are versed in certain Eastern philosophies.  Of course he is
> totally lost, because he has yet to find himself.  But, hey, some people

[ ... ]

Could we dispense with the sweeping generalizations?!! 

Is it not just as sexist to consider aeons of (social) evolution a function
of HE and not f(HE,SHE)?

Are we really furthering our understanding of the human condition by 
denigrating an entire class of human beings, viz., males of European 
descent, by jumping on a bandwagon in order to appear fashionably chic? 

> Then again, I could be merely spewing non-sense.

Well, OK, a waiver.